Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?1992
Notes
[1992] i.e., the army under the command of Abrahah al-Ashram which was accompanied by a huge elephant and came with the intention of destroying the Kaʿbah at Makkah.
Verse 1 of Surah Al-Fil (105:1), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 601 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
O Messenger! Do you not know how your Lord dealt with Abraha and his people: the people of the elephant, when they intended to demolish the Ka‘bah?
Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the Elephant1?
Notes
[1] The army of Abrahah al-Ashram was accompanied by a huge elephant who came with the intention of demolishing the Kaʿba.
Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
Have you not seen how your Lord performed with the companions (i.e., owners) of the elephant?
